Sentence examples for one misstatement from inspiring English sources

The sentence contained one misstatement — it was actually afternoon — which was the first of dozens of misstatements, ranging from the trivial to the risible ("I never get phone calls from the media").

One misstatement or shading can hurt a campaign and damage a career, as Susan E. Rice, who is the United States ambassador to the United Nations and is about to become Mr. Obama's national security adviser, learned when she went on a series of shows one Sunday last September to discuss the attack on the American diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya.

Should one misstatement really distract us from the fundamental truths that a nation that was founded to promote life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness strayed so far from those ideals.

It turns out he didn't, but he had the capacity to make weapons of mass destruction". Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld, who made numerous declarations on the existence of chemical, biological and nuclear weapons in Iraq, also acknowledged making at least one "misstatement" about WMDs.

In many cases, the strategies rest on misstatement and misrepresentation.

If you feel that we are being too harsh on one candidate and too soft on another, there is a simple remedy: let us know about misstatements and factual errors we may have overlooked.

But if Rice might be Secretary of State, it's worth wondering about her world view, beyond one morning's misstatement.

Rather than explain Mr. Gore's misstatements, one of his aides, Mark Fabiani, focused on Mr. Bush, saying, "We've never attacked Bush for his numerous crimes against the English language".

Giuliani critics seized on the misstatement.

The recently filed complaint goes off in a different direction, one involving alleged misstatements that more plausibly could be of importance to the reasonable investor.

Still, the complaint at least alleges statements and actions that, if true, could, with further elaboration, plausibly establish that Exxon made one or more misstatements that would have been material to investors considering whether to buy or sell Exxon shares.